Introductory chapters are perfect; much better than I had expected.

Transition from feudal order to

the modern age is understandable. All the modern thinkers, in a way, are in search of being a part of
Newtonian motion laws, Descartes duality and Euclidean geometry. What Newton found out in the
field of physics, the enlightenment philosophes attempted at discovering the same laws in social
sciences. Rousseau is believed to be the culprit of the French Revolution by E Burke. Burke thinks that
Rousseau's works brought about French Revolution which in the history of man for the first time a
political action is carried out in the name of an ideology. So, Burke is concerned about how to stop
revolutions. He states that revolutions can be prevent by books just as it was created by thinkers'
books. It seems that he was aware of the importance of ideology to mobilize the masses then!! I have
to give credit to Rousseau that he thinks that progress does not bring happiness, on the contrary it
increases the dependency of man to the machines. The first sin for Rousseau is private property and
it is the cause of all evils.

I have to drop a few line about Locke who disagrees with Hobbes who the author compares with S.
Augustin in terms of his pessimism regarding the state of nature. Locke recognizes the right to revolt
when a sovereign is not just.